Sister Patricia Fox, provincial superior of the Our Lady of Sion Sisters, meets her legal counsel and leaders of the Catholic Church after her arrest on April 16, 2018 at the Bureau of Immigration building in Intramuros, Manila. Photo by Mark Saludes, ABS-CBN News

By Trishia Billones/ABS-CBN News – Australian nun Patricia Fox will fight for her stay in the Philippines to continue her missionary work, her lawyer said Monday, adding her possible deportation would set a “dangerous precedent.”

The Department of Justice may decide as early as Monday on the 71-year-old Fox’s appeal to reverse the Bureau of Immigration’s cancellation of her missionary visa on allegations she participated in partisan political activities.

Should the DOJ deny Fox’s appeal, she would elevate the case to President Rodrigo Duterte’s office or to the Supreme Court, her lawyer, Maria Sol Taule, told ABS-CBN News.

“I’d like to stay to continue being with them, continue doing whatever I can. I’ve learned so much from the people, and there’s still a lot more I can learn,” Fox said of her missionary work on ANC’s Headstart.

“It’s unsettling not knowing what’s happening, but I think because I believe that something good will come and I do have the support of a lot people to keep going,” she said.

Fox’s deportation will set a “dangerous precedent” for other foreign missionaries, Taule said.

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